Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction

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Qualitative Data Analysis An Introduction

• Carol Grbich
• Chapter 11
• Ethnodrama

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Ethno drama and performance texts

• Key points
• Ethnodrama is a powerful tool for highlighting
  cultural issues and the perspectives of
  disempowered people
• The skills of a playwright are essential
• The dialogical aspect of performance bringing
  together diverse perspectives can be an
  important vehicle for change

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Ethno drama

• A hermeneutic and critically reflective process
• The primary objective is to educate or bring
  about change in your audience by using
  ethnographically derived data to present
  political and social issues in dramatic form.

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Ethnodrama Process 1.

• Source data from interviews, observations and
  documentation to produce a polyphonic narrative
  collage.
• Develop characters
• Develop script dialogue and activity
• Monologue
• Dialogue
• Monologue dialogue

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Ethnodrama Process 2.

• Develop the story line - Take out the essence of
  field notes, interview transcripts and journal
  entries, photos, TV scripts etc
• Keep the numbers of actors to the minimum
  required to tell the story
• Decide from whose perspective the story is to be
  told
• What role should the researcher play?
• Use theatrical artifacts to send messages to the
  audience rather than overusing language

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Dialogical validation

• Ongoing dialogue with participants
• Pre performance Dialogical interaction with
• Actors
• Relevant community groups
• Post performance Dialogical interaction with
• the Audience
• Actors
• Community groups

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Criticisms

• Quality
• Researchers are not playwrights
• Ethics
• Uncertainties of participants
• Participant vulnerability
• The dialogic encounter
• Whose perspective dominates
• Well researchers negotiate?

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Evaluation

• What level of participation do key participants
  have in the creation of their stage characters
  and the dialogical negotiation which follows a
  performance?
• What levels of interactivity occur with the
  audience and with relevant public groups through
  dialogical exchange
• Do performances succeed in bringing people of
  different perspectives together so exchange and
  collaboration can occur?
• What are the outcomes of these interactions in
  terms of change? (adapted from Jones, 2007)

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New forms of Ethnodrama

• World wide web as a stage
• Autoethnodrama
• Articles written as dramatic scripts